The Oval feels kind of time-honoured and lived-in – though the original was destroyed in the 1916 Easter Rising. Kennedys on Westland Row, formerly Conways, has hosted Bloomsdays, and claims associations with Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett, as well as Joyce. Davy Byrnes, which Leopold Bloom deems a “moral pub”, is OK for a pint, though the menu doesn’t feature the gorgonzola sandwich he enjoys with a “good glass of burgundy”. None of the pubs mentioned in the novel looks anything like they would have done back in the day. No need to choose too carefully Ulysses allows plenty of scope for “arsing around from one pub to another”. Due to Covid-19, the centre is currently closed reopening date tbc. Leopold Bloom’s fictional house at 7 Eccles Street wasn’t so lucky, but the front door of the property is on display here. The building was saved from the wrecking ball by a Joyce scholar. In the early 1900s this fine Georgian townhouse at 35 North Great George’s Street gave home to a dance academy run by Prof Denis J Maginni, a character who turns up a few times in Ulysses.
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